Open Access Publishing

Check for Quality

Check to see if the journal is included in the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). Journals included in the DOAJ must exercise quality control on submitted papers and meet additional standards of quality.

Check to see if the publisher is a member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association). Members of OASPA are expected to adhere to the OASPA Professional Code of Conduct.

Check to see if the journal's publisher is a member of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

Check Ulrichsweb or publisher websites to find out if the journal is peer-reviewed and what databases it is indexed in.

Check SJR (SCImago Journal Rank). An open access metric that ranks journals contained in the Scopus database from 1996 to the present.